languseni

Languseni is a fictional constructed language developed for linguistic pedagogy and world-building exercises. Used in classroom materials and speculative fiction, it aims to illustrate how typological features can interact within a single system. It has no native speakers and exists primarily as a teaching tool and creative device.

Phonology: The Languseni sound system includes five vowels /a e i o u/ that participate in a straightforward front–back harmony. Consonants are drawn from a modest inventory of stops, fricatives, nasals, and liquids. Syllables are typically CV or V, with occasional closed forms, and word stress is commonly placed on the penultimate syllable.

Grammar: Languseni is largely agglutinative. Nouns take suffixes to mark case and number, with a nominative–oblique alignment. Verbs conjugate for tense, aspect, and mood using suffixes; subject agreement is expressed on the verb. The basic word order is subject–object–verb, and modifiers follow the nouns they modify. Postpositions replace prepositions in noun phrases.

Writing: The language uses a Latin-based alphabet with diacritics to indicate vowel harmony and, in sample texts, length or tonal distinctions. Orthography aims to be regular and approachable for learners, with explicit phoneme–grapheme correspondences.

Usage and communities: As a fictional construct, Languseni has no real-speaking community. It appears in linguistics coursework, conworlding projects, and sample texts in educational materials. Some learners and writers circulate lexicons and short texts to illustrate its features, though these resources are unofficial and pedagogical in purpose.